Awtibefillable bottle



I H. T. BLUM.

ANTIREFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9.19M.

Pa tented Aug. 26, 1919.

HAROLD T. BLUM, 0F AMHERST, OHIO.

ANTIREFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26, 1919.

Application filed March 9, 1915. Serial No. 13,179.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD T. BLUM, a citizen of the United States,residing at Amherst, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Antirefillable Bottles;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in anti-refillablebottles and has for its principal object to provide a device of theabove character which will prevent unauthorized persons from dilutingthe contents of bottles or from refilling the bottles after they haveonce been emptied.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which willeffectively protect the public from persons who are apt to fill a bottleand sell the same fraudulently.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a bottle which incase it is tampered with will show signs of such tampering.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts which will be fully set forthin the following specification and accompanying drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a fragment of the bottleconstructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the guard pins.

Referring now to the drawing, by characters of reference, the numeral 1designates as an entirety a bottle of the usual construction comprisinga body 2 having formed thereon the usual neck 3. This neck is formed[With the enlarged opening 4 for the reception of the stopper 5 and theshoulder 6 is formed at the lower end of the enlarged opening and isprovided with the tapered opening 7 forming a valve seat against whichthe ball valve which will be more fully hereinafter described rests.Molded in the bottle neck between the shoulder 6 and the point where theneck joins the bottle are the guard copies 0! Patent y be obtained forflve cents each, by addressing the pins designated generally by thenumeral 8 which comprise the body 9 having the upturned end 10. Theopposite end of this body is downturned as at 11 to form a guard againstwhich the ball valve rests when the bottle is in its inverted position.This ball valve is designated generally by the numeral 12 and comprisesa spherical body 13 which is arranged to rest against the valve seat 7and completely close the opening. The upturned ends 10 of the pins 9extend into the grooves 14 in the bottle neck, and it will be apparentthat in case any person tampcrs with the pins, the bottle neck will bebroken and thus indicate to the user the fact that an attempt has beenmade to substitute or laciz fraudulent or spurious material in the otte.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferredembodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that such changesmay be made in the combination and arrangement of parts as will fallwithin the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A bottle of the character described comprising a body and a neck, saidneck being formed with a valve seat on its lower extremity and having ashoulder intermediate the ends to limit the downward movement of thebottle stopper when placed in the neck, a spherical valve arranged onthe valve seat, said bottle neck provided with grooves on the exteriorthereof below the shoulder, a plurality of guard pins having horizontalportions embedded in the neck below the shoulder, the inner ends of saidguard pins turned downwardly and limiting the movement of the sphericalvalve, the outer ends of said pins bent upwardly into the grooves thuspreventing the pins from being removed without indicating to the user anattempt to remove the pins.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HAROLD T. BLUM.

Witnesses:

J. J. SMYTHE, J. S. MCCLIMAN,

"Commissioner of Patentu.

Washington, D- 0."

